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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thunder in the Air. The ghost of a British soldier returns after ten years to twist the hearts of his parents and one-time fiancee. This spectral drama by Robins Millar, Glasgow journalist, may interest adherents of spiritualism; earthier critics may yawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...association is Charles A. Sloan, formerly in charge of broadcasting for the New York World. Herbert Bayard Swope, retired executive editor of the World, was reported to have given advice on the enterprise but he denied having any formal connection with it. The former Swopian Secretary, Miss H. A. Millar, is secretary of the new company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Radio News | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Warmed with a lively knowledge of human hypocrisy, and desiring to make the best possible disposal of certain resources which had served him, in his lifetime, jauntily and well, Charles Vance Millar, Canadian turfman, corporation lawyer, sat down to write his last will and testament. When he died recently his friends pronounced the will a practical joke, his last. Surely, a later will would be found. Then, chuckling, they read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: Birth Race | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...Seniors elected into the Society were: Fenner Smith Barbour of Haverhill, William Humphreys Doherty of Cambridge, James Millar Graves of Washington, D. C., Norman Abraham Haskell of St. Louis, John Whittemore Teele of Boston, and Robert Norman Walsh of Oradell, New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAU BETA PI ALTERS BY LAWS IN ELECTING SIX | 11/27/1926 | See Source »

...heroine, Mary Moore, is a creature of similar appearance, whose Wyoming nativity urges her into the wide open spaces of ex-Senator Bob Millar of that state.? Her cosmopolitan sophistication inclines to dapper young Count André de Servaise. Both men are out to marry money, of which Mary has little. A Wyoming interlude that might have been written by Elinor Glyn in collaboration with Harold Bell Wright and a Campfire Girl, eliminates Millar?and Mary's chastity. When she finally marries André, whose constancy does not soar above the average for Latins, she discovers the comfort resident in observing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION, FICTION: House Papers | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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